STEVENSON! PRAYER FOR SICK CHILD. 131 



tious of the good of heart, that the vicetheurgist of the Snake Society, 

 wlio is one of the writer's staunchest friends, rode many miles to solicit 

 her prayers fur his ill infant. He placed in her hand a tiny package 

 of shell mixture done up in a bit of corn husk, and, clasping the hand 

 with both of his, he said : "Your heart being good, your prayers travel 

 fast to the sun and Ko'pishtaia." He, then, in the most impressive 

 manner, repeated the following prayer: 



(1) Kuchor-pish-tai-a (2) Ku-chor-na-ta-ni (3) Ku' ti ot se a ta (4) Pai'- 

 ii-ta-mo ki-'chiin ni (5) Ha'-mi ha'-notch (6) Uwa raash-ta-fii (7) Ka'a- 

 wiuck (8) Ya'-ya (9) U-ii-mvits (10 Ka'-a-winck (11) Sha'-mi winck 

 (12) U-we-chai-ni (13) Ni na mats (14) iii to Si (15) *si tu ma ni to Qi (16) 

 Na' wai pi cha. 



Explanation of prayer by governor for his sick child. 



(1) Your thoughts and heart are united with Ko'pishtaia; you daily 

 draw the sacred breath of life. 



(2) Your thoughts are great and pass first over the road to the sun 

 father and Ko'pishtaia. 



(3) Our thoughts and hearts are as one, but yours are first. 



(4) A man of the world. > ^ 



ir\ /^i- j-i i 1 f -y } Referring to the child. 



(5) Of the tobacco family, j ° 



(6) You will be to the child as a mother, and the child will be as your 

 own for all time to come; your thoughts will always be for one another. 



(7) The hearts of ourselves and the child be united and as one 

 heart henceforth ; those of us who pray for the child will be known by 

 the child and the child by us, even though the child has not been seen 

 by us ; we will know one another by our hearts and the child will greet 

 you as 



(8) Mother. 



(0) Take the child into your arms as your own. 



(10) That the hearts of ourselves and the child's be united and as 

 one heart; henceforth those of us who pray for this child will be known 

 by the child and the child by us; though the child has not been seen 

 by us, we will know one another by our hearts. 



(11) May he have a good heart. 



(12) May all good words come straight fiom his heart and pass over 

 the straight road. 



(13) While he is growing from childhood to youth. 



(14) While he is growing from youth to manhood. 



(15) And may he be valued as he grows from manhood to old age. 



(16) May the child be beautiful and happy. 



When one is ill from the heat of the sun he sprinkles corn pollen or 

 meal to the sun, saying, "Father, I am ill in my head, it reaches my 

 heart; I pay you with this meal; I give it to you as food, and will be 

 thankful to you to take away my malady." 



